Arno River Press resides within the Florence School of Fine Arts in the center of Florence, Italy. Located in a historic palazzo and a few steps away from the Uffizi Gallery, Piazza Signoria and Santa Croce. The facilities at Arno River Press are integrated with the print media and photography departments at the Florence School where historical printing equipment lives alongside computers and other digital media used in our teaching, publishing, research and outreach programs.
Committed to cultural preservation and the promotion of work by emerging artists, the press is continually evolving with its exploration in both traditional and innovative techniques for producing high quality artists books and printed ephemera. Printing with an 1862 Hopkinson and Cope Albion Iron Handpress, 1860 Stanhope and a Korrex Berlin, text is set with beautiful vintage Italian and French wooden and metal type, custom ink colors mixed by hand and printed on handmade and fine papers.
Illustrations are created by hand ranging from intaglio processes of engraving and mezzotint, relief processes of wood engraving, linoleum cuts,stone lithography, and silkscreen. Photo imagery is created with a variety of printing processes including salt prints, platinum/palladium, cyanotype, van dyke, photo lithography and risograph printing.
The printed pages are bound in traditional and contemporary book structures using a variety of fine materials including leather, book cloth and papers often with an option of a slipcase or drop spine box to hold them.
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